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Gallows Hill
Cairn (Early Bronze Age), Cist (Early Bronze Age), Beaker (Early Bronze Age), Food Vessel (Early Bronze Age)
Site Name Gallows Hill
Classification Cairn (Early Bronze Age), Cist (Early Bronze Age), Beaker (Early Bronze Age), Food Vessel (Early Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 33616
Site Number NO44SE 19
NGR NO 4995 4353
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/33616
- Council Angus
- Parish Inverarity
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO44SE 19 4995 4353.
(NO 4995 4353) Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1972)
The remains of a cairn, already almost entirely denuded, were removed from Gallows Hill in 1905 during the construction of a tank. A cist was discovered, containing a food vessel and traces of bones. The cist was removed and set up in the garden of Kirkbuddo House. Fragments of a beaker (Clarke's N.2 type), presumably derived from another burial beneath the cairn, were also found, near the cist.
The beaker fragments and food vessel were donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1945. (Accession nos: EG 80 and EE 132 respectively).
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1946; D L Clarke 1970.
This cairn, into which water tanks have been inserted, appears to have been about 25.0m in diameter, and is still 3.5m high.
The cist set up in the garden of Kirkbuddo House was dismantled about 1950 and the stones scattered.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 7 September 1967.
